[FRENCH ACADEMY]. French Academy. First formation: 1629. Letters patent of January 1635 verified at the Parliament on July 10, 1637. To immortality, in Paris, August 15, 1807. In French, manuscript on paper. France, 1807-1840. in-4, [1] f., VI pp., [1] f., 343 pp. leaves ruled and framed in red . Binding of the period half red morocco, smooth spine, gilt title, caissons with riddled decoration and small irons in the style of Bozérian, green cardboard boards bordered with a gilt scroll, gilt Greek framing the counterplates, gilt edges (minor flaws and restoration including resumption of the painting of the boards, some sporadic browning). Dimensions : 240 x 191 mmManuscript divided into 25 chapters, of which the title of the first leaf does not completely reflect the content . Although the initial writing is from 1807, there are additions until the 1830s and even 1840s. The text concerns the foundation of the Académie française. It offers lists of its members, its perpetual secretaries and even its printer-librarians. It also contains tables of receptions, dispensations and praises, and several regulations. It deals with the formation of the Institute and the prizes awarded. Anonymous work but very well documented. Joint : DUMAS (Alexandre) (1824-1895). Discours de réception d'Alexandre Dumas fils, pronounced in 1975 at the Académie françaiseImpression on paper, handwritten corrections in black ink in the margin . France, Paris, 1875. Incipit, "Institut de France. Académie française. Mr. Dumas fils (Alexandre) having been elected by the Académie française to the place vacant by the death of Mr. Lebrun, came to take a session on February 11, 1875." In-4, 39 pp. Bound in brown half-chagrin, smooth spine decorated with the title in long, covers in marbled paper. Dimensions : 227 x 280 mmSpeech corrected by Alexandre Dumas fils, French novelist and playwright, successful author like his father .